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A.G. GancarskiJune 10, 2016

Their divorce is final. But the marital squabbles continue on for House District 14 candidate Kim Daniels and her ex-husband. In 2015, the Jacksonville City Council re-election campaign of Kim Daniels featured the lurid narrative of explosive charges made against her in her divorce case against fellow minister Ardell Daniels. Ardell Daniels’ grievance against his ex-wife is still […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Alas, there were no slot machines in the Lynwood Roberts Room for demonstration purposes. None of the earmarks of a casino. No young women selling packs of cigarettes. And very little in the way of entertainment in a committee workshop that had about as much drama as an algebra equation. Rather, there were just the familiar […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

The race for the GOP nomination in Florida’s 6th Congressional District finally has a Publix angle, with two Republican candidates sparring over the grocery chain. At a GOP meeting Wednesday, Fred Costello asserted that working as a “Publix bag boy” doesn’t really count as private sector experience. Brandon Patty, a military veteran of recent vintage, responded to Costello, […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Is Todd Wilcox too honest for the 2016 United States Senate race? His speech Thursday to the Republican Women’s Club of Duval Federated suggested that may be the case. In a room full of career politicians, Wilcox began his remarks by discussing a “movement underway … fueled by disgust with career politicians.” Wilcox described himself […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry announced his “bipartisan finance team” for his “Yes for Jacksonville” political committee, designed to market the pension-tax referendum. “This group of community and business leaders come from both political parties and bring an incredible depth of experience,” said Curry. “Their dedication to the city’s future and commitment to a victory for this reform ensures […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

State Rep. Reggie Fullwood filed a motion recently saying he could not be charged with defrauding the Division of Elections in his 14-count federal trial for 10 counts of wire fraud and four counts of failure to file federal tax returns. This week, federal prosecutors disagreed. “Defendant’s motion is misguided. It is premature, it is an incorrect statement […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

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A 90-minute Wednesday public notice meeting in the Jacksonville City Council offices addressed the perilous future of Friends of Hemming Park. This tradition is almost as old as Jacksonville itself. **** The nonprofit Friends of Hemming Park, designed to run the park, has enough funds to last until early August, after a $100,000 appropriation during […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi is in the news this week for soliciting a donation from Donald Trump concurrent with a considered, then scuttled, 2013 investigation of Trump University. Next week, she will be in the news for soliciting donations in a different context — the re-election campaign of Angela Corey, the incumbent Republican State Attorney in Florida’s 4th […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

State Rep. Travis Cummings, who represents northern Clay County, and Jay Fant, who represents much of Jacksonville’s Westside, have some things in common. Both are Republican incumbents. Neither faces a primary challenge. Both raised little money in May. And both got $500 checks from the “Duke Energy Corporation Florida” PAC. **** Cummings raised just $1,800, […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 8, 2016

The Florida Commission on Ethics this month determined “probable cause” in three incidents related to 4th Circuit Public Defender Matt Shirk, whose hiring of three women from a now-defunct bar called “Whiskey River,” and subsequent entertaining of the women in his office, were matters of media interest a couple of years back. Two other incidents, meanwhile, didn’t meet […]

Jax

HD 14 candidate Kim Daniels accused by ex-husband of running ministry as a slush fund

Jax Council committees workshop slots legislation

The Publix question enters the CD 6 race

Todd Wilcox talks career pols, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump

Tommy Hazouri among ‘bipartisan finance team’ for Jax pension-tax referendum sales pitch

Feds: Reggie Fullwood motion that Division of Elections was not defrauded is ‘misguided’

Jax mulls future of Hemming Park … again

Pam Bondi to fundraise for Angela Corey next week

Slow fundraising for Travis Cummings, Jay Fant in May

Matt Shirk takes hits from state Ethics Commission